Question: What is the membership’s opinion and experience on accepting a L/C for payment from a foreign customer when the foreign customer’s L/C contains stipulations regarding the issuance of an 8 digit HTS code on all documents for the product? We are not comfortable with these HTS clauses in the L/C’s because of the 2 […]
Question: I have been asked to find tariff rates for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Peru. Does anyone have links to sites with their respective tariff rate information? I’ve gone to the typical sites; export.gov, usitc, etc. I know that I can look up individual HTS numbers on the FedEx Trade site but was hoping […]
Question: Just started at a new company, and they are making a significant amount of entries using scrap HTS codes for obsolete material coming from a sister company in Mexico. I’m familiar with the use of Scrap HTS, but I’ve noticed that they are importing all kinds of things (e.g. computer monitors, printers) and […]
Question: Can someone in the membership provide a list of the tariff numbers that should be triggering a TSCA declaration request from our broker? Is there a website where I can find this information?
Question: I am looking for a text file format of the 2009 USHTS. Does anyone have a suggestion where I can find this?
Question: For anyone who’s petitioned Congress for a specific change to the US HTS: –Were you successful? –How onerous was the process/ what was involved? –How long did it take? –Did you use an outside consultant/lobbyist? If yes, who? –Did you collaborate with other companies importing a similar product or did you go […]
Question: For anyone who’s petitioned Congress for a specific change to the US HTS: –Were you successful? –How onerous was the process/ what was involved? –How long did it take? –Did you use an outside consultant/lobbyist? If yes, who? –Did you collaborate with other companies importing a similar product or did you go it alone? […]
Question: Has anyone requested and used HTS codes from their foreign vendors? If so, how were the codes audited to ensure accuracy?Answers: We make it a practice to never use any HTS numbers other than those we have assigned. Because foreign HTS schedules aren’t exact to the US (only the first 6 digits are the […]
We recently learned that Canada is printing its 2007 HTS in September this year to coincide with the WTO publishing their amendments. Has anyone heard whether the USITC might consider publishing the 2007 HTSUS in September. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have the tariff before the start of a new year?
Does anyone know of a way to get a master listing of all HS#’s for a given visa category? We are wanting a master listing of all HS#’s related to visa category 229.
Where can I find the list of tariff numbers that will be impacted by the re-imposition of retaliatory duties (that were suspended Jan 1 2005 after the passing of the Jobs Creation Act) that will now be re-imposed since transitional provisions under the 2004 American Jobs Creation Act were ruled non-compliant because they give tax […]
Does anyone know of a resource to retrieve a list of abbreviated U.S. HTS descriptions to populate our tariff code description fields in SAP? Is there perhaps even a standardized list? The following is an example of what I’m referencing: 8538906000: “Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8535, 8536 […]
